TL;DR: Explore the new features and improvements added in the Syncfusion PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint libraries for the 2024 Volume 2 release. Highlights include improved PDF merging and pop-up icons, LaTeX conversion for Word equations, Excel chart-to-image improvements, and more.
Syncfusion’s Document Processing Libraries enable creating, reading, writing, and converting PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files without Microsoft Office or Adobe Reader.
This blog will delve into the exciting new updates added to Syncfusion’s Document Processing Libraries as part of the 2024 Volume 2 release. Discover how these enhancements can revolutionize your document management and processing tasks.
The Syncfusion .NET PDF Library delivers the following new user-friendly features:
This functionality allows users to merge PDF documents without compromising their accessibility. Accessibility is crucial for users relying on screen readers and other assistive technologies.
Using appearance streams, users can add various pop-up icons to a PDF document, including custom icons with unique appearances. The appearance stream ensures that each pop-up icon is displayed uniformly when the PDF document is viewed by any standard PDF viewer.
This feature allows users to duplicate pages within the same PDF document, facilitating easier content replication and organization. This support is helpful for quickly creating templates, maintaining consistency across multiple sections, and streamlining document editing processes.
The .NET Word Library supports the following enhancements in this 2024 volume 2 release.
The .NET Word Library (DocIO) now includes an API for extracting LaTeX code from mathematical equations in Word documents. Users can also modify existing equations using the LaTeX code.
This feature allows users to convert mathematical equations from Word documents to LaTeX and integrate them into LaTeX-based equation editors.
The Syncfusion .NET Word Library includes the following enhancements when converting any Word document to a PDF file:
The Syncfusion .NET Excel Library now supports the following new features:
Error bars in charts are preserved exactly as they appear in the input Excel file when converting charts-to-images, aiding in statistical analysis by measuring data variability and deviation.
The show values row option is provided in pivot table creation and Excel-to-PDF conversion. This feature allows users to add Values row to the pivot table when two or more data fields exist.
Support for the gradient fill style in conditional formatting enhances the appearance and highlights data in reports with large datasets during Excel document creation and Excel-to-PDF conversion.
The .NET PowerPoint Library is rolled out with the following new features:
The .NET PowerPoint Library includes an API to access the font properties of the paragraph end mark in PowerPoint Presentations.
Thanks for reading! In this article, we’ve detailed the standout features and improvements in the 2024 Volume 2 release for the Syncfusion Document Processing libraries. Syncfusion continues to push the envelope in document processing solutions, ensuring efficiency, accessibility, and user satisfaction remain at the core of our offerings.
To discover more features available in this release, please visit our Release Notes and What’s New pages.
For current Syncfusion users, you can access the most recent version of Essential Studio® on the License and Downloads page. If you’re new to Syncfusion, we offer a 30-day free trial to test these exciting new features.
Try out these features and share your feedback as comments on this blog. You can also reach us through our support forums, support portal, or feedback portal.